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11 avril 2018

Minority SafePack: threshold reached in 7 countries, 100 000 signatures still needed

Résultat de recherche d'images pour "fuen.org"Latvia, Spain, Croatia and Denmark joined Romania, Slovakia and Hungary, states in which the national threshold has been reached. Austria, Bulgaria, Italy, Poland and Slovenia also have good chances of reaching the threshold as the initiative reaches the finish line. In the last days new and strong commitments came from Lithuania and Sweden. Hungary made another strong statement  last week and  today it has secured over 400 000 signatures. A counter has been enabled on the minority-safepack.eu website for all the signatures made online and on paper, and it updates daily. More...
11 avril 2018

The Silent Five

The Silent Five
More reaction today to the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the copyright extension act. My own take is just what it was at the beginning of the hearing: the danger with taking a legalistic approach to such issues is that you are forced to rely on the law as it is written, and if the law contains inherent injustices, then these will be reflected in the court's decision. That's the case here. More...

11 avril 2018

Supreme Court Endorses Copyright Theft

Supreme Court Endorses Copyright Theft
Readers of my most recent article will not be surprised to read that my reaction to the Supreme Court's decision to allow extended copyright terms is exactly the same as this author's: "Swipe a CD from a record store and you'll get arrested. But when Congress authorizes the entertainment industry to steal from you -- well, that's the American way. More...

11 avril 2018

Cocoon

Cocoon
Following up from some of the work I'm doing in Edmonton this week: readers may be interested in this Apache project called "Cocoon." The purpose of Cocoon is to provide XML data handling capacities. Based on a "pipeline" model, it takes web content expressed in XML and provides output in a variety of formats, including HTML, PDF and RTF. More...

11 avril 2018

Taproots for a New Century: Tapping the Best of Traditional and Progressive Education

Taproots for a New Century: Tapping the Best of Traditional and Progressive Education
The author tries to find a common ground between the "intertwined taproots" of conservative and progressive approaches to education, presenting a set of ten commandments on two tablets (one conservative, the other progressive). More...

11 avril 2018

Sharing History of Science and Medicine Gateway Metadata Using OAI-PMH

Sharing History of Science and Medicine Gateway Metadata Using OAI-PMH
After a fairly standard description of the Open Archives Initiative, metadata harvesting and RSS, the author provides an insightful list of some of the problems and issues involved in setting up a repository. More...

11 avril 2018

Exposing Information Resources for E-learning - Harvesting and Searching IMS metadata Using the OAI Protocol

Exposing Information Resources for E-learning - Harvesting and Searching IMS metadata Using the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting and Z39.50

Nice technical document that I wish people working on development in a large national learning object initiative (which will go nameless, to protect the guilty) would read. More...

11 avril 2018

Sleeping With the Enemy?

Sleeping With the Enemy?
This author is concerned that senior managers are beginning to "talk nonsense" about commercial journal publishers in public meetings. "Like most individuals and organisations on the planet we need other people to help us along the way, and commercial publishers provide libraries with services that we should value, not disparage." So what are these services. More...

11 avril 2018

In Praise of the Purple Cow

In Praise of the Purple Cow
This item doesn't have a lot to do with e-learning, but it has been making the rounds of e-learning lists and with good reason. The basic message is simple: if you want to be successful with your product, do something different and useful. More...

11 avril 2018

Blogs Refine Enterprise Focus

Blogs Refine Enterprise Focus
All you really need to publish a blog is a website, a text editor and an FTP server for uploads. If you want to splurge, you can spend $50 and get a blogging tool. But I've already seen "enterprise weblog solutions" selling for $50,000 and more. More...

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